The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, is among the foremost of institutes of national importance in higher technological education and in basic and applied research. The department of chemistry constitutes is an center for of academic excellence. Since its inception in 1961, the department has been engaged in imparting the highest level and quality of academic education and has focused upon addressing key scientific problems, which have gathered worldwide appreciation and recognition.

Department of Chemistry, IITM has a vibrant research program which includes all frontier areas of research. We have 32 faculties on roll who works in synthesis, property examination and theoretical aspects of matter at molecular level. The funding for research comes from various government and private organizations. We have adequate equipments for carrying out cutting edge science and our research findings are published in peer reviewed journals. The faculty names of the chemistry department are given below based on the area of research.

The Department has well equipped laboratories in the fields of analytical and inorganic chemistry, heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis and adsorption studies, electrochemistry, high pressure chemistry, surface chemistry, organic chemistry and photochemistry. In recent years, new facilities have been added in other areas of activities such as biochemistry, chemical kinetics, organometallic chemistry, polymer chemistry, solid state and structural chemistry. The Department has recently set up a computational laboratory.